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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

A Florida pastor's plans to burn Qurans at his church on the ninth anniversary of Sept 11 isn't getting much reaction here at home.

Obaida Sbayi is the General Secretary with the Provincial Muslim Association here in Saint John and tells CHSJ News, this is the world we live in but is shocked with how it has been blown out of proportion by the media and somewhat of a victory for the extremists.

Sbayi adds it is a blow to the values all Muslim people grow up with to get accustomed to in North America.

The Conservative Twitter account which presents itself as "NBLiberalParty" has been removed by Twitter for violating their terms of service. It was last month when Liberal candidate Kelly Lamrock called on the Conservatives to remove the account because they were misleading and irresponsible. The Conservatives responded by saying it's a great site for people to go on to get the truth.

New Democrats are sounding a warning for the Liberals and Conservatives -- the party says it won't support any minority government that doesn't commit to maintaining current levels of services in education and health care.
The party has been preaching fiscal restraint while on the campaign trail - but - not at the expense of what it says are front line public services like education and health care.
A poll last week showed the Liberals and Conservatives in a close race while N-D-P support had slipped slightly.

Merrithew says a lot of credit has to go out to the Green Party with 23 of it's 51 candidates ladies and when you look at a riding like Rothesay, where all the candidates are women, it is very exciting.

Municipalities in Greater Saint John and around the Province now have a new way of getting out information to their residents. It's called the Sentinel and makes it easy for officials to get in touch with you by phone, text or e-mail if there is an emergency situation.

Brian Shanks is spokesperson for the K.V. Emergency Measures Organization and says the bottom line of this service is to save lives.

Shanks says some of the work left to do with the program is meet again with municipal councils to lay out the kind of risks facing each community from the Police and Fire Departments along with EMO perspective.

The program is paid for through cost sharing on a per capita basis and by usage and it's on a volunteer basis to sign up.

Installing sanitary sewer lines between the Gondola Point Arterial out to the Palmer Brook Road next year just one of several infrastructure projects on the map for Quispamsis.

Town officials have put together it's plans after a request by the Department of Transportation as it puts together it's five year designated highways program.

Director of Engineering Gary Losier tells CHSJ News there is major work to be carried out on the Hampton Road in the coming years.

The full width of the Hampton Road will have to be torn up so the request to D-O-T is to defer any plan for asphalt work until the construction project is finished. The number of projects is six that would be carried through until 2015.